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How the US House could overturn the midterm election results
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Kevin MacLeod · incompetech.com · CC BY 4.0
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The article explains that the U.S. House has constitutional authority to investigate and even overturn results in any of its 435 races, a power rarely exercised today but common in the 19th century, according to AEI's John Fortier.
Historical examples include New York's 2020 delay in certifying Claudia Tenney's win and North Carolina's 2018 do-over after a Republican operative's fraudulent absentee ballot scheme came to light. The Federal Contested Elections Act of 1969 gives the House Administration Committee power to investigate and even conduct its own recount.
With Republicans in Congress already pushing mid-decade redistricting to shore up their midterm chances, the piece notes that a handful of contested seats could determine control of a narrowly divided House come January.
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A rulebook written for the 1800s is still sitting on the shelf, and it turns out nobody threw it away. It doesn't take a conspiracy to worry about this, it just takes a chamber close enough that a handful of seats matter and people willing to use every lever available. The last go-round showed plenty of appetite for pulling levers; there's no reason to assume that appetite went anywhere.
